Black eye peas. Black-eyed peas.
Nothing spiritual....just traditional. Southern traditional.
Mildred Davenport Adams aka Gigi traditional. Black-eyed peas cooked with hog jowl, served with a side of fresh turnip greens and piping hot cornbread.
A can in the pantry with 3 "just-in-case" freezer packs in Memphis.
Hoppin' John from a food truck in Bryson City, North Carolina.
Perfectly delectable from Brooklyn, New York by the resident chef.
Hopeful for a "bean" of some sort in Panda Express take-out in Allen, Texas---anything to appease Gigi! More importantly to please God.
Enjoy your New Year's Day meal to glorify God/honor God. (1 Corinthians 10:31)
Regardless of the translation* of the tradition---Whether then, you are eating or drinking or whatever you are doing, let everything be done to the glory of God. (Weymouth New Testament)
So eat your meals heartily, not worrying about what others say about you - you're eating to God's glory, after all, not to please them.....but Him.
*Whether therfore ye eate or dryncke or what soever ye do,
do all to the prayse of God. (Tyndale Bible of 1526)
